Local Briefs From Decatur Area Include Church, School And Bus News
Sunday weather outlook calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with northeast to east coast winds. Rev Luther C Goebel will preach at First Christian Church in Jacksonville Indiana on Sunday June 5. City court docket includes petit larceny two traffic violations and two prohibition cases. Summer school starts June 13 at Decatur junior high school with one elementary and several high school classes. Walter Jackson, schools superintendent, urges registration and notes teachers will be available for questions. Harold Litchinstein, Auburn student, serves in Air Force reserve in Orlando for training. Maurice Jones, Auburn engineer, visiting home folks. Mrs F F Tice and Rebecca Ann visiting G A Weinman Priceville. Report cards distributed Tuesday at 8:30 am. teachers in rooms Wednesday for parent questions. Miss Margaret Nell Day visiting sister Mrs M L Young East Moulton street. Paul Gene Hargrove attending University of Alabama commencement. J D Vinson visiting brother W W Day. Ralph Hood, Presbyterian Men president, announces Tom Pettus will speak at Tuesday banquet served by church women. Bus service Decatur to Detroit announced by H E Sunderland Southeastern Greyhound. Northbound departures from Decatur at 11 05 am 5 55 pm and 1 23 am.
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Decatur
Walter Jackson
Decatur Schools
Robert Woodard to Appeal Life Term in Dean Killing
Robert Woodard 45 fallback Cullman taxi driver will appeal a life sentence for the July 25 1946 killing of Wallace Clyde Dean. jury verdict delivered to Circuit Judge James H Crow Jr Friday after a 6 pm deliberation. Dean slain on Holly Pond road East of Cullman. testimony by star witness Faye Kelso Rhodes aided by defense moves. Horace Pope also charged awaits later trial.
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Robert Woodard
Cullman
Wallace Clyde Dean
Woodard
James H. Crow Jr
Dean
Barney Bland
Finis St. John
Star State
Faye Kelso Rhodes
Horace V. Pope
Holly Pond
May Take Over Eisler Escape Ship Seizure Rumor
U S officials detain 110 passengers from the Polish liner Batory on its first New York arrival since the Eisler escape while investigators inspect the ship. Immigration hearings to start Monday will determine citizenship status and possible seizure, amid conflicting statements from officials and a Polish embassy threat of legal action.
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New York
Gerhart Eisler
Ellis Island
Batory
U. S
Washington
Board
District
Edward Aenements
Altercation Ends in Shooting at Hartselle Jewelry Store
Ashford Stanford a 36 year old Hartselle jeweler admitted shooting his nephew W B Stanford 25 after a quarrel in downtown Hartselle store. Sheriff C B Humphrey said the man was hit four times by a .22 pistol and was not in critical condition. The incident followed a daytime dispute involving Beard and a Florence trip.
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Ashford Stanford
Hartselle
W. B. Stanford
Ashford
Humphrey
W. B
Decatur
Garland Nuby
Morgan
Beard
Stanfords
Florence
Courtland Road
Sermon Topic at St Paul s Church Sunday
The Sunday morning worship at St Paul s Church will feature the sermon subject God's New Testament With His People. The service begins at 10 30 a m with the morning worship set.
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St. Paul's Es Church
Dutch Liner At Shanghai Diary Report
Dutch liner Tjibadak arrived in Shanghai the first foreign vessel since the new regime took power. It will depart Sunday for Hong Kong with mail and Chinese passengers, as foreigners’ departures are reportedly restricted pending visa facilities. Foreign airlines aim to resume service despite disruptions. The Liberation Daily News accepting Northwest Airlines ads is noted as significant amid communist controls.
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Shanghai
Tjibadak
Nghai
Hong Kong
Liberation Daily News
American Northwest Airlines
Georgia doctor strike threat at Milledgeville hospital
A peace parley failed and a mass walkout threat loomed over 10,000 patients at Milledgeville mental hospital. Gov. Talmadge could not resolve differences with doctors and administrators, postponing the crisis for five days as 13 staff doctors demand the firing of Welfare Director Jack Forrester and Hospital Superintendent Thomas A. Dechman.
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Charles Barrett Lovejoy
Georgia
Milledgeville Mental Hospital
Herman Talmadge
State Welfare
Jack Forrester
Thomas A. Dechman
Talmadge
Milledgeville
State Social Security Board
Meditation
Forrester
Thomas G. Peacock
Dechman
Thompson Dead In Accident
Guy Edgar Thompson, 31, died at Frazier hospital Dothan Saturday morning from injuries in an automobile accident Friday night. Highway Patrol Decatur said details were unavailable. funeral Monday at 11 at Hartselle Baptist Church, interment in Hartselle Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. survivors include parents Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Thompson and siblings.
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Guy Edgar Thompson
Hartseller
Frazier Hospital
Dothan
Highway Patrol
Décatur
Thompson
Hartselle Baptist Church
Billy Stephenson
Hartselle
Peek
Gurnie Roberts
Pat Roberts
Happy Scott
Vernon McCowan
Cecil
Ralph Thompson
Jennie
Juanita
Edward
B. T. Thompson
Vaughn Booth
Edith Nunn
D. C. Thompson
Decatur
Spy Probers to Break Big Case
The House un American Activities Committee plans hearings on an alleged Russian effort to obtain wartime Bell Aircraft secrets from the Buff alo Niagara Falls area. Witnesses from Niagara Falls and Buffalo are named, with officials saying the trio played along while alerting U S security. The case centers on Bell Airacobra planes and a wartime Russian military commission in the United States.
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Washington
House
Bell Aircraft Plant
un-American Activities Committee
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Bell
Buffal
Joseph Franey
Loren Haas
United States
Bell Airacobra
Moscow
U. S
His Cough Dislodges Plum Seed In 3 Year Old Throat
ATLANTA June 4 Three year old Dan McCorkle of Lyons Georgia swallowed a plum seed that lodged in his lung He was rushed to Ponce De Leon infirmary as state patrolmen cleared the way The child coughed during anaesthetic and expelled the plum seed but swallowed it again later this time into his stomach Doctors said no operation was needed He is the son of A D McCorkle a Lyons salesman Also Peggy Lee Kelly five of Jackson Georgia relieved of a nickel lodged in her throat since Monday The nickel was removed with a bronchoscope
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Atlanta
Dan McCorkle
Lyons
Ponce de Leon
A. D. McCorkle
Peggy Lee Kelly
Jackson
GOP Believes T-H Substitute Bill Plays Into Their Hands
Washington June 4 Senate Republicans fight to preserve key Taft Hartley provisions while Democrats press to repeal the act. Douglas predicts success. Debate on the administration bill to replace Taft Hartley with a new version begins Monday.
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Gop
T-H
Bill
Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Senate
Douglas
Sparring Ends Between Foes And Governor
Gov. James E. Folsom faces a spending clash with the Alabama legislature as he eyes a statewide radio appeal to influence public opinion. A clerk hire amendment aims to curb temporary clerks, with Rep. Tom Johnston arguing it acts like a veto. House support stood 72-27. fate hinges on next week’s votes and possible lobbying efforts.
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Montgomery
Ala
James E. Folsom
Capital Railbirds
Folsom
Tom Johnston
Mobile County
Rep. Johnston
House
Negro Family Faces Threat in Birmingham Area
In Birmingham Alabama a negro family in a white zoned area received a threatening letter noting if they do not move out they will be sent somewhere heaven or hell. It is the second threat in 24 hours with a prior telephone call to a negro minister’s wife. Police have a patrol car nearby and attorney Arthur Shores says the letter will be sent to the FBI for possible postal handling.
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Birmingham
Ala
Heaven
Hell
E .B. Deyampert
Milton Curry Jr
Curry
Deyampert
Currys
Atty
Arthur Shores
FBI
Shores
Rainy Areas Across Nation Dampen Weather For Many
Rainy pockets spread across the South Atlantic coast, Ohio Valley, and plateau states with scattered showers. A broad heavy rain area stretched from Southern Wyoming into Colorado and western Kansas and Nebraska, dropping 1.20 inches in six hours in Lamar Colorado and 2.60 inches in 24 hours. Elsewhere, weather varied from warm humid air from Texas into the Ohio Valley to cooler conditions in the central and northern plains and Great Lakes region.
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Chicago
South Atlantic Coast
Ohio Valley
Plateau States
Wyoming
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
Lamar
Colo
Texas
Plains
Great Lakes
Don Goon
Medical Group To Open Meet In Atlantic City
The American Medical Association, the world’s largest doctors group, opened its annual meeting in Atlantic City with more than 16,000 doctors expected to attend. Delegates will debate compulsory health insurance and the public education needed to oppose it, in what officials call a pivotal, far reaching gathering for medicine.
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Frank Carey
Associated Press
Science Reporter
Atlantic
American Medical Association
Truman
House of Delegates
A. M.A
Mayor Who Tore Off Klan Masks To Meet Truman
The Atlanta Journal reports President Truman will meet Soperton Ga mayor James Peterson who recently removed three Ku Klux Klan masks. Peterson, en route after Annapolis graduation, will stay until Monday for the scheduled conference. His son William C. Peterson was commissioned an ensign.
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Atlanta
The
Atlanta Journal
Truman
James Peterson
Soperton
Peterson
Washington
Naval Academy
Annapolis
William C. Peterson
Journal
Eight Escapees Are Recaptured
Eight of the 14 long term convicts who cut from West Virginia's old state penitentiary were recaptured today. Law enforcement used planes, jeeps and road blocks to flush the six still at large in the upper Ohio river area. Everett Leroy Reble and Elmer Tichnell, both 28, from Parkersburg, were picked up by Police Chief Earl W. Walker in Belpre, Ohio. One suspect was shot in the shoulder by an Ohio state highway patrolman after being spotted on a Powhattan, Ohio highway.
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Moundsville
W. Va
West Virginia
State
Ohio River
Earl W. Walker
Belpre. O
Everett Leroy Reble
Elmer Tichnell
Parkersburg
Walker
Belpre Street
Ohio
Powhattan
Ardmore Man Killed Crossing Road in Ardmore
Ardmore retired farmer David Joseph Dollar was killed instantly about 7:30 P.M. Saturday while crossing a road six and a half miles south of Ardmore on the Huntsville Pulaski road. Driver Joseph Pollitz said headlights from three cars blinded him and Dollar stepped into his path. Dollar is survived by his wife Bebe Dollar and several children. Funeral services will be announced later by Rainey and Sons Ardmore.
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David Joseph Dollar
Ardmore
Carl Edgeman
Joseph Pollitz
Ardmore 1
Edgeman
Huntsville-Pulaski
Pollitz
Dollar
Bebe Dollar
Rainey and Sons
Paris Progress is Very Slow Informant Says
Four weary foreign ministers ended a four and a half hour secret session on Berlin with little progress an American source said. Western officials noted an area of agreement on broad principles but doubt on details. Acheson and Vishinsky held a private dinner huddle after the session. Schuman left early for Lorraine. A communique said the ministers met in closed session and will reconvene on Monday June 6.
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Paris
Berlin
Russia
West
Dean Acheson
Andrei Vishinsky
U.S
David K. Bruce
Charlies Bohlen
State Department
Vladimir Pavlov
Robert Schuman
Lorraine
United States
Man Killed and Girl Injured in Vidalia Crash
A Vidalia Georgia crash near the Loop road north of town killed William Horace Bradley 25 of Bremen. Injured were Earl Wilds 23 of Atlanta with a broken neck and internal injuries and Doris Holland 15 of Lyons with a cut hand and shock. Investigators sought the driver as Miss Holland may be the possible witness.
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Vidalia
Here
William Horace Bradley
Bremen
Earl Wilds
Atlanta
Doris Holland
Lyons
Reidsville
Wilds
Holland
J. W. Beasley
J. D. Fulford
Highway No. 1
Miss Holland
Decatur Plans Two New Schools With Bond Bids Ahead
Decatur schools plan two new buildings with occupancy hoped by fall 1950. Bids for bonds and construction are due June 15 at 2 p.m. at city hall, with 1.5 million dollars in local bonds to retire existing taxes. Superintendent Walter Jackson announced the rapid advance of the project and the prospectus has reached about 75 potential buyers.
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Decatur
Walter Jackson
Ee Ween Eyee
Extensive Coast Air Warning Test Plans Announced
Defense Secretary Johnson outlined Operation Lookout the largest air raid warning drill since the war. More than 26,000 civilian volunteers will join military radar teams in a six-day mock war across 10 East Coast states from Portland Maine to Wilmington Delaware. The OC D Planning Office and Aubrey Mellinger helped design the plan supervised by the Air Defense Command at Mitchell AFB New York with OCDP recruiting spotters through state defense officials.
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Washington
Sccretary of
Johnson
Portland
Wilmington
Delaware
Military
Office of Civil Defense Planning
Aubrey H. Mellinger
Air Defense Command
Mitchell Air Force Base
New York
OCDP
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G. A. Weinman
Priceville
Margaret Nell Day
M. L. Young
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Paul Gene Hargrove
University of Alabama
J. D. Vinson
W. W. Day
Ralph Hood
National Council of Presbyterian Men
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Tom Pettus
Moulton
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Southeastern Greyhound
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Eisler
Immigration Or Customs
Pete Esperdy
Edward Aamet
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